Did Wizards decide to print Boros charm in very limited quantities after people freaked out about it?

I opened an entire booster box and only opened ONE, yet I opened every other shockland from the set, domri rade, enter the infinite, duskmantle overseer, and a foil Crypt Ghast (best black card in the set IMO).

There probably was also a completely unremarkable uncommon that you opened none of, or maybe one. It's called (pseudo)random distribution precisely because you don't get equal amounts of everything and you can't really predict what you'll get. You only look for the strong cards though, so that's what catches your attention.

In short, just chill out and be happy about your awesome rares and mythics.

It seems odd, but I noticed the same thing about Golgari Charm in RtR. A friend is utterly convinced that some cards are printed at a lower amount than they should be, but I don't think that works out in terms of how the cards are actually printed.

There probably was also a completely unremarkable uncommon that you opened none of, or maybe one. It's called (pseudo)random distribution precisely because you don't get equal amounts of everything and you can't really predict what you'll get. You only look for the strong cards though, so that's what catches your attention.

In short, just chill out and be happy about your awesome rares and mythics.

Did Wizards decide to print Boros charm in very limited quantities after people freaked out about it?

I opened an entire booster box and only opened ONE, yet I opened every other shockland from the set, domri rade, enter the infinite, duskmantle overseer, and a foil Crypt Ghast (best black card in the set IMO).

My paltry GTC collection is the reverse of your anomaly - in the ten boosters I've opened (via two prerelease packages), I've gotten *two* Boros Charms - and a combined zero of the four other Charms.

(My Boros-guild booster did not contain one. They were all in the random packs).

Anomalies happen. There are several commons I still don't even have one of, while there's a rare I have in duplicate. Same thing happened in RtR.

Did Wizards decide to print Boros charm in very limited quantities after people freaked out about it?

I opened an entire booster box and only opened ONE, yet I opened every other shockland from the set, domri rade, enter the infinite, duskmantle overseer, and a foil Crypt Ghast (best black card in the set IMO).

I thinsk this is the norm. The RTR booster box i opened had ONE of each charm.

I opened a fat pack and a booster box, and ended up short on keyrunes. There's also a lot of commons I'm short on- I was hoping to build the Dimir deck from the "Govern More of the Guildless" article, but, alas, with only one Deathcult Rogue, it just wasn't going to happen. Ended up short on Gruul guildgates, too.

Oh well, I can probably grab a stack of commons after the next few FNM's to build the decks from.

I opened a booster box of Scars of Mirrodin and came out missing one common card...I am not surprised by your pulls. Although common/uncommon playsets for big sets are a ton of cards, it would take selecting from more than one bootser box to complete one.

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Between two pre release guildpacks (Simic and Gruul) and five prize boosters I got a playest of Soul Ransoms. I'm quietly hoping it becomes a thing and I can bask in the riches of my pulls. I also got another one in my fat pack and one more in my booster box so I now have a total of six. Haven't tallied up my commons and uncommons yet, but I'm sure I have more Soul Ransoms than some of those at this stage.

There probably was also a completely unremarkable uncommon that you opened none of, or maybe one. It's called (pseudo)random distribution precisely because you don't get equal amounts of everything and you can't really predict what you'll get. You only look for the strong cards though, so that's what catches your attention.

In short, just chill out and be happy about your awesome rares and mythics.

Why would anyone be excited about Duskmantle Overseer or Enter the Infinite?

Enter the infinite is 12 mana to cost, and duskmantle overseer seems like more of a "who draws higher cards first loses" cards.

Did Wizards decide to print Boros charm in very limited quantities after people freaked out about it?

I opened an entire booster box and only opened ONE, yet I opened every other shockland from the set, domri rade, enter the infinite, duskmantle overseer, and a foil Crypt Ghast (best black card in the set IMO).

I myself only got one in my booster box and one in a fat pack. 2 is what I wanted but extra would have been great.

At the Friday release draft between a fat pack, box and prize packs I opened a full playset of Breeding Pool, one of which was foil. Despite all those packs and two drafts I have yet to aquire a single Orzhov Charm, stuff like this happens.

Why has nobody done the simple math yet? 80 uncommons total in Gatecrash, 36*3 = 108 non foil uncommons in a booster box. You expect to get 108/80 = 1.35 of each uncommon in your box. In other words, you're more likely to get 1 Boros Charm than you are to get 2, and it's highly unlikely you'll get 4+.

Of course, it's not THAT unlikely, but for most uncommons you should see between 0 and 3 copies per box.

Why has nobody done the simple math yet? 80 uncommons total in Gatecrash, 36*3 = 108 non foil uncommons in a booster box. You expect to get 108/80 = 1.35 of each uncommon in your box. In other words, you're more likely to get 1 Boros Charm than you are to get 2, and it's highly unlikely you'll get 4+.

Of course, it's not THAT unlikely, but for most uncommons you should see between 0 and 3 copies per box.

Not quite, check your math again.

You have to carry the 1, divide by 2, and remember that your on the internet.

Factoring all that in, the OP should have gotten a playset of Boros Charm because he wanted them and it's just an uncommon.

I really doubt it. Forget the fact that that box was probably made of cards that were physically printed before boros charm was even spoiled. Forget the fact that WOTC would have no motive to do that. Forget the fact that, with 80 total uncommons and 96 uncommons in one booster box, getting 1 boros charm is about average. But even if you forget all that stuff, I don't think this is believable. I mean, how unlikely is it that WOTC has a gigantic conspiracy, and Bankaimastery doesn't catch on to it first?

I hope all this helps you to see things in a greater light—and understand that Magic: the Gathering was really created by extraterrestials using Richard Garfield as a medium. The game itself reflects the socio-psycho realtivity between living beings, and the science that takes precedence over them—to define reality for them all (like telekinesis, weather, scientific reaction, phenomenon, ingenuity, how the brain works, etc.). I'd also bet there is an entity floating thousands of miles above us, looking down on the current state of game, shaking its fist like... "Wtf are you doing?! You're getting it all screwed up!". Awkward—to be evolved, and yet still subject to the ladder that is the concepts of the game. In this case, misconception, corruption, and deception. With the realities of each color becoming distorted (through oblivious designers), leading the game to reflect a false state of reality that warps the understanding that other people have about those things. For example, people thinking that white could be anything except pure good. This shouldn't be too far off though, I mean...Magic is designed based on reality after all, so that entity (those entities) should be subject to those things. Anyways, I guess when you're busy doing space stuff you can't always be around to ensure quality control. It's no wonder they choose Garfield, they're so much alike; that's exactly what happened to him and Magic.